Rita approaches, Rove has bigger fish to fry
Posted by Evan Derkacz on September 23, 2005 at 10:59 AM.
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| Dear Mr. President, WTF is Karl doing? |
This is unbelievable. Rita is bearing down on Texas and Louisiana with
135 mph winds, traffic is backed up
100 miles, a bus filled with elderly evacuees has
exploded, people who
want to evacuate can't, and Bush's new crony-in-charge has some money to earn?
Senator Frank Lautenberg (so nice when the opposition in congress actually does the legwork for you) sent a letter to the president
today "respectfully urg[ing him] to remind Mr. Rove of his
responsibilities as the coordinator of relief and recovery efforts":
"Hurricane
Rita is bearing down on the Gulf Coast even as the nation reels from
the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. It would be expected that Mr.
Rove would be at his post "24/7" during this crisis."
"However,
as unlikely as it might seem, we have learned that Mr. Rove will be
traveling to North Dakota to engage in political fundraising
activities. When this fearsome hurricane makes landfall on Saturday,
Mr. Rove will be delivering a political speech to the North Dakota
Republican Party, and will be featured as a special guest at a
fundraising dinner."
